Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Sturt

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Alan Perlis

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Dominique Moisi

The one who has perhaps gained the most is the prime minister, who stood for the state and managed to deliver a message of firmness together with a message of openness to society.

Garth Tuck

The power is there. It's more than just a fad. It's a new medium to deliver content.

Paul House

We are proud of the strong quarter that we have delivered in our first reporting period as a public company.

Kip Petersen

We spent millions installing a modern water delivery system, sewage treatment facility and paved roads.

Mike Reed

We approached this as a must-win game because it solidifies our fifth seed in districts, and kept us in the second-half race if somehow God delivered some miracle and Halifax lost.

Jacques Rogge

We have no doubt that BOCOG will deliver in a splendid way.

Stephen Jones

Was the person you delivered (food) to Mr. McVeigh?,

Jeffrey Immelt

We remain prepared to deliver double-digit earnings growth in 2001, but most importantly we're excited about how well GE is positioned for the future,

George Schweitzer

We're spending more money on this than any other promotion in UPN history. They've delivered to us a great pilot, and we want to get this out in as many places as we can.

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback. He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback, ... He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Jenji Kohan

Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.

Jennifer Lawless

What we do need to do though is look at what's working in public and chartered schools and start engaging different kinds of experts to integrate that policy into the public school system.

Bryan Cogman

As far as engaging with fans... it's a tricky thing. I enjoy seeing the feedback on Twitter, etc. It's probably the actor in me.

Neil Strauss

The trick, when you're flirting, is figuring how to keep a balance between being engaging enough to retain someone's attention and not seeming overly available. So you tease a person a little.

Jeff Swanagan

We want to be the world's most engaging aquarium.

Pankaj Mishra

Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

Wilford Kale

He is, to me, a very likable individual with a very engaging and outgoing personality. I think that - and the fact that everybody gets a honeymoon - has given him a remarkable beginning.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Mike Harris

We want them to understand we're here to help and do everything we can,

Javier Solana

We want to see how we can help organize the transfer.

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

David Shuster

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

David Schwimmer

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

David Koechner

All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act.

Dave Barry

Seriously? You won’t help me?” “Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Bill Lee

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.

Michael Bell

We've talked to a lot of students and property managers about this, and we're trying to sort out the pros and cons, ... A staunch position, yea or nay, can't be reached at this point.

Michael Carty

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Steve Smith

University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Eric Swalwell

One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to upgrade the way it communicates with its constituents.

Jacques Santini

We have had them (Greece) observed by a member of our technical staff,

Brian Molko

Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

Jay Dillon

The primary consideration was to protect the student himself, and protect the students around him, as well as the staff members that were there.

Ted Dever

When UTC took over there were 900 employees. Now there's 500 union members and soon it will be down to 350.

Nigel Farage

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

Arianna Huffington

You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Brian Greene

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

Eleanora Duse

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Tony Fadell

You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going.

John Burke

We've been working with our partners for years to provide them insight. Have we solved this problem? No, but we're getting closer.

Ann Aguirre

With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.

Reg Alcock

We view the public service as our partners in this,

Lawrence Eagleburger

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

Darren Kimball

When I look at 2006, I see a lot of the same pressures I saw in 2005.

Mark Zandi

My sense is, there will be more inflationary pressures going forward.

Rob Lowe

I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand.

Alastair Campbell

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Warren Christopher

not succumb to suggestions or pressures that they leave.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Lech Walesa

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Aleister Crowley

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Albert Camus

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

Clive James

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.